Wednesday, October 2, 2013

Established in 1928, McIntosh
& Otis is an elder statesmen among American literary
agencies. It’s a full-service literary agency, representing a broad range of
adult and children's fiction and non-fiction.

Adam Muhlig is the latest addition to the agency. As
an agent, Adam’s current interests include music – from jazz to classical to
punk – popular culture, natural history, travel and adventure, and sports. Adam
is pursuing books that offer fresh perspective or new analysis by or about
mavericks in these fields.

Keeping with McIntosh
and Otis’ great tradition, he is seeking works that will have classic value and
long-term strength. His editorial work includes research, organization
and indexing of Karl Shapiro’s provocative essay collectionCreative
Glut: Selected Essays.He also assisted Alan Tennant on his now classic,On the Wing aNew YorkTimes bestseller. As an archival appraiser, for
more than fifteen years Adam has worked on collections by many noted musicians
and entertainment industry figures, naturalists, historians, and poets and
writers including several United States Poets Laureate and Pulitzer Prize
winners.

Please send a query
letter, proposal, outline, author bio, and three sample chapters (no more than
30 pages) of the manuscript.

Christa Heschke is also
a new member of the team and is actively looking for new authors. Christa
graduated from Binghamton University with a major in English and a minor in
Anthropology. She started in publishing as an intern at both Writers House and
Sterling Lord Literistic, where she fell in love with the agency side of
publishing. Christa has been at McIntosh and Otis, Inc.
in the Children’s Literature Department since 2009. Find her on Twitter:
@ChristaHeschke

Christa is seekingpicture
books, middle grade, young adult and new adult projects.

She is a fan of new adult and young adult novels
with a romantic angle and strong, quirky protagonists. In young and new adult,
Christa is especially interested in contemporary fiction, horror and
thrillers/mysteries. She’d also like to see steampunk and fantasy (urban
and high), that pushes the boundaries of what’s currently on the shelves,
perhaps a new take on these genres that has yet to be seen.

As for middle grade, Christa enjoys humorous
contemporary, adventure and magical realism for boys and girls. For picture
books, she’s drawn to cute, character driven stories.

Paste a synopsis and the first three consecutive
chapters (not to exceed 25 pages) of the manuscript into the email. No
attachments. Full submission guidelines here.

Martha Magor Webb

Brian
Henry will lead a “How to Get Published” workshop with guest speakerCarly Wattersof P.S. Literary agency in
Georgetown on October 5 (see here). He’ll also lead “How to Get
Published with guest speaker Martha Magor Webb of Anne McDermid literary agency in Oakville on February 22 (seehere).

But
before you submit, the best way to get your manuscript into shape is with a
weekly course. In January, Brian will lead a “Welcome to Creative Writing” on Tuesday evenings in
Burlington (see here); a “Writing your life & other true
stories”on Tuesday afternoons in Burlington (here);"Next
Step" courses on
Thursday afternoons in Mississauga (here)
and Thursday evenings in Georgetown (here);
and “Intensive” courses for more experienced writers on Wednesday afternoons in
Burlington and Wednesday evenings in Mississauga.

Brian Henry has been a book editor, writer, and creative writing instructor for more than 25 years. He teaches creative writing at Ryerson University. He also leads weekly creative writing courses in Burlington, Mississauga, Oakville and Georgetown and conducts Saturday workshops throughout Ontario. His proudest boast is that he has helped many of his students get published.